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Texas Through Women's Eyes : The Twentieth-Century Experience.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Louann Atkins Temple Women and Culture SeriesPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (328 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780292784888
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Texas Through Women's EyesDDC classification:
  • 305.4209764/0904
LOC classification:
  • HQ1438
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. Social Reform and Suffrage in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 -- Urbanization and Economic Opportunity -- Strikes and Labor Activism -- Education and Professionalism -- Motherhood and Social Housekeeping -- Public Health: Cleaning up the Food Supply -- Maternalist Legislation: Child Labor, Compulsory Education, and Mothers' Pensions -- Claiming Urban Space: Settlement Houses and Prostitution Districts -- The Boundaries of Race -- Immigration and Revolution in the Borderlands -- Votes for Women -- The Politics of Woman Suffrage -- Suffrage in Black and White -- Suggested References -- Documents -- PART II. Post-Suffrage Politics, Depression, and War, 1920-1945 -- Rural Life -- The New Woman in Politics -- Female" Politics and the "Petticoat" Lobby -- Athletics: Hoop Dreams and Rodeo Queens -- Education and Work -- Women of Color: Discrimination and Protest -- Surviving the Great Depression -- The New Deal and Women -- Discrimination in the New Deal -- World War II: The Home Front -- Women in Uniform -- Conclusion: New Women, Labor Women, and Race Women -- Suggested References -- Documents -- PART III. Conformity, Civil Rights, and Social Protest, 1945-1965 -- Gender Roles and the Domestic Ideal -- Women at Work -- Civil Rights, Brown: "They Treated Us Like Dumb Mexicans -- Civil Rights, Black: "You're Not Dirt, No Matter Where They Make You Sit -- Red Scare Politics and the Minute Women -- Women and the Rise of the Republican Party -- Legal Rights -- Suggested References -- Documents -- PART IV. Feminism, Backlash, and Political Culture -- Title VII and Civil Rights for Women -- The New Left and Women's Liberation -- Chicana Feminism -- Reproductive Freedom -- The Equal Rights Amendment: For and Against -- Splintered Sisterhood: The 1977 Houston Women's Conference.
Aftermath: Women and the New Right -- Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Women in Electoral Politics -- Title IX and Gender Equity in Sports -- Women in the Workforce -- Family and Personal Life at the End of the Century -- Conclusion: Facing Forward, Looking Back -- Suggested References -- Documents -- Notes -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. Social Reform and Suffrage in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 -- Urbanization and Economic Opportunity -- Strikes and Labor Activism -- Education and Professionalism -- Motherhood and Social Housekeeping -- Public Health: Cleaning up the Food Supply -- Maternalist Legislation: Child Labor, Compulsory Education, and Mothers' Pensions -- Claiming Urban Space: Settlement Houses and Prostitution Districts -- The Boundaries of Race -- Immigration and Revolution in the Borderlands -- Votes for Women -- The Politics of Woman Suffrage -- Suffrage in Black and White -- Suggested References -- Documents -- PART II. Post-Suffrage Politics, Depression, and War, 1920-1945 -- Rural Life -- The New Woman in Politics -- Female" Politics and the "Petticoat" Lobby -- Athletics: Hoop Dreams and Rodeo Queens -- Education and Work -- Women of Color: Discrimination and Protest -- Surviving the Great Depression -- The New Deal and Women -- Discrimination in the New Deal -- World War II: The Home Front -- Women in Uniform -- Conclusion: New Women, Labor Women, and Race Women -- Suggested References -- Documents -- PART III. Conformity, Civil Rights, and Social Protest, 1945-1965 -- Gender Roles and the Domestic Ideal -- Women at Work -- Civil Rights, Brown: "They Treated Us Like Dumb Mexicans -- Civil Rights, Black: "You're Not Dirt, No Matter Where They Make You Sit -- Red Scare Politics and the Minute Women -- Women and the Rise of the Republican Party -- Legal Rights -- Suggested References -- Documents -- PART IV. Feminism, Backlash, and Political Culture -- Title VII and Civil Rights for Women -- The New Left and Women's Liberation -- Chicana Feminism -- Reproductive Freedom -- The Equal Rights Amendment: For and Against -- Splintered Sisterhood: The 1977 Houston Women's Conference.

Aftermath: Women and the New Right -- Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Women in Electoral Politics -- Title IX and Gender Equity in Sports -- Women in the Workforce -- Family and Personal Life at the End of the Century -- Conclusion: Facing Forward, Looking Back -- Suggested References -- Documents -- Notes -- Index.

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